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Here are 75 interesting events that occurred on this day in history:

March 25

  1. 44 BC - Julius Caesar is stabbed to death by Brutus and other conspirators.
  2. 1526 - The Ottoman Empire captures the city of Buda, Hungary.
  3. 1770 - James Cook becomes the first European to discover the eastern coast of Australia.
  4. 1795 - The United States signs a treaty with the Dey of Algiers, ending the First Barbary War.
  5. 1834 - The United States Senate votes to censure Andrew Jackson for his actions in the Nullification Crisis.
  6. 1865 - The SS Sultana, carrying over 2,000 passengers, including many Union prisoners of war, explodes and sinks in the Mississippi River, killing over 1,800 people.
  7. 1876 - Alexander Graham Bell patents the telephone.
  8. 1915 - The Armenian Genocide begins as Ottoman authorities arrest and deport Armenian intellectuals and leaders.
  9. 1927 - The first issue of Time magazine is published.
  10. 1931 - The first five-woman jury is seated in a court in Chicago.
  11. 1947 - Jackie Robinson becomes the first African American to play in Major League Baseball, playing for the Brooklyn Dodgers.
  12. 1957 - The European Economic Community is established.
  13. 1965 - The first spacewalk is performed by Soviet cosmonaut Alexei Leonov.
  14. 1975 - The United States launches the Space Shuttle Enterprise on its first test flight.
  15. 1985 - The first mobile phone call is made in the United Kingdom.
  16. 1990 - The Hubble Space Telescope is launched into orbit around the Earth.
  17. 1995 - The Oklahoma City bombing occurs, killing 168 people and injuring over 680.
  18. 2005 - The United States begins its withdrawal from Iraq.
  19. 2010 - The Deepwater Horizon oil spill begins in the Gulf of Mexico.
  20. 2015 - The European Union and the United States agree to a new trade deal, the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership.

Other notable events

  1. 1216 - King John of England dies, and his son Henry III becomes the new king.
  2. 1521 - The Ottoman Empire captures the city of Rhodes.
  3. 1787 - The United States Congress passes the Northwest Ordinance, establishing the Northwest Territory.
  4. 1839 - The first Opium War between China and the United Kingdom begins.
  5. 1861 - The American Civil War begins with the bombardment of Fort Sumter.
  6. 1873 - The United States and Canada sign the Treaty of Washington, resolving border disputes.
  7. 1918 - The United States declares war on Germany.
  8. 1923 - The first issue of The New Yorker magazine is published.
  9. 1933 - The first flight of the DC-3 airliner takes place.
  10. 1942 - The United States and the United Kingdom sign the Lend-Lease Act.
  11. 1953 - The United States and the Soviet Union agree to a ceasefire in the Korean War.
  12. 1960 - The United States launches the first successful satellite, Explorer 6.
  13. 1971 - The United States launches the first space station, Skylab.
  14. 1981 - The first mobile phone call is made in the United States.
  15. 1991 - The United States launches the first GPS satellite.
  16. 2001 - The United States invades Afghanistan.
  17. 2011 - The United States launches the first space shuttle mission since the Columbia disaster.

Birthdays

  1. 1755 - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Austrian composer
  2. 1822 - Charles Dickens, English author
  3. 1867 - Guglielmo Marconi, Italian inventor
  4. 1874 - Woodrow Wilson, 28th President of the United States
  5. 1889 - Charlie Chaplin, English actor and director
  6. 1901 - J.R.R. Tolkien, English author
  7. 1913 - John F. Kennedy, 35th President of the United States
  8. 1922 - Frank Sinatra, American singer and actor
  9. 1934 - Bob Dylan, American singer-songwriter
  10. 1942 - Aretha Franklin, American singer
  11. 1952 - Michael Jackson, American singer and songwriter
  12. 1962 - Whitney Houston, American singer
  13. 1971 - Will Smith, American actor and rapper
  14. 1981 - Jennifer Love Hewitt, American actress
  15. 1985 - Chris Brown, American singer
  16. 1990 - Selena Gomez, American actress and singer
  17. 1992 - Willow Smith, American singer and actress
  18. 1995 - Shawn Mendes, Canadian singer
  19. 1997 - Millie Bobby Brown, English actress
  20. 2001 - Finn Wolfhard, Canadian actor

Deaths

  1. 44 BC - Julius Caesar, Roman general and statesman
  2. 1521 - Ferdinand Magellan, Portuguese explorer
  3. 1865 - Abraham Lincoln, 16th President of the United States
  4. 1915 - Franz Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria
  5. 1936 - Amelia Earhart, American aviator
  6. 1945 - Adolf Hitler, German dictator
  7. 1965 - Winston Churchill, British Prime Minister
  8. 1975 - Richard Nixon, 37th President of the United States
  9. 1980 - John Lennon, British musician
  10. 1990 - Freddie Mercury, British musician
  11. 2003 - John Ritter, American actor
  12. 2011 - Elizabeth Taylor, British-American actress
  13. 2013 - Margaret Thatcher, British Prime Minister
  14. 2015 - B.B. King, American musician
  15. 2016 - Harper Lee, American author
  16. 2017 - Chuck Berry, American musician
  17. 2018 - Stephen Hawking, British physicist
  18. 2020 - Kirk Douglas, American actor